Scottland Plantation House

Scottland is a Greek Revival house in Tallulah, and the one standing building tied to the vanished village of Richmond. Thomas B. Scott, the parish's first sheriff, is its first notable occupant. Plantation farming in Madison Parish before 1865 meant enslaved labor, and this house stood at the center of such a place. A century and a half later a hometown Army lieutenant colonel, home from helping restore war-damaged sites in Iraq, bought it and replaced the roof and repaired the windows. The house joined the National Register of Historic Places on November 2, 1982.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 12 mi
  Nearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.
• Poverty Point World Heritage Site — 20 mi
  Louisiana's only World Heritage Site: six C-shaped ridges, a 43-acre plaza and Mound A, raised on Macon Ridge between about 1700 and 1100 BCE.

More markers nearby

• Burning of Richmond — 1.5 mi
• Crescent Plantation — 2.9 mi
• Grant's Canal — 16 mi
• Freedmen Fight at Milliken's Bend — 16 mi